Trial reportBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2005
Randomised controlled trial of acute mental health care by a crisis resolution team: the north Islington crisis study.
Trial report in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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87 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 312 citations in OpenAlex.
- Crisis intervention for people with severe mental illnesses.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Implementation of the Crisis Resolution Team model in adult mental health settings: a systematic review.BMC psychiatry · 2015Pooled it
- Can team-based care improve patient satisfaction? A systematic review of randomized controlled trials.PloS one · 2014Pooled it
- Crisis intervention for people with severe mental illnesses.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2012Pooled it
- Variations in rates of comorbid substance use in psychosis between mental health settings and geographical areas in the UK. A systematic review.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2009Pooled it
- Economic evaluation of intensive home treatment in comparison to care as usual alongside a randomised controlled trial.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2025Trial
- Utilization of Psychiatric Hospital Services Following Intensive Home Treatment: A Nonrandomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2024Trial
- From research to practice: Implementing an experimental home treatment model into routine mental health care.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2020Trial
- The CORE service improvement programme for mental health crisis resolution teams: results from a cluster-randomised trial.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2020Trial
- Peer-supported self-management for people discharged from a mental health crisis team: a randomised controlled trial.Lancet (London, England) · 2018Trial
- Intensive home treatment for patients in acute psychiatric crisis situations: a multicentre randomized controlled trial.BMC psychiatry · 2018Trial
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- Intensive Home Treatment in Mental Health: A Qualitative Exploration of Carers' Experiences.International journal of mental health nursing · 2026Article
- In-home medical nutrition support for patients with severe anorexia nervosa: a mixed methods evaluation of a specialized Mobile Nutrition Team.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Intensive home treatment compared to inpatient psychiatric treatment: a 36-month follow-up of a propensity-score matched retrospective multicenter cohort study.BMC psychiatry · 2026Observational
- Factors associated with successful psychiatric intensive home treatment - a quasi-experimental study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Transdiagnostic early warning score for psychiatric hospitalisation: development and evaluation of a prediction model.BMJ mental health · 2025Article
- Can a crisis resolution team replace an inpatient ward? Results from a French quasi-experimental study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Cost-Effectiveness of Crisis Resolution Home Treatment for Managing Acute Psychiatric Crises in Southern Switzerland.International journal of public health · 2025Article
27 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate the effectiveness of a crisis resolution team.
designRandomised controlled trial.
participants260 residents of the inner London Borough of Islington who were experiencing crises severe enough for hospital admission to be considered.
interventionsAcute care including a 24 hour crisis resolution team (experimental group), compared with standard care from inpatient services and community mental health teams (control group).
main outcome measuresHospital admission and patients' satisfaction.
resultsPatients in the experimental group were less likely to be admitted to hospital in the eight weeks after the crisis (odds ratio 0.19, 95% confidence interval 0.11 to 0.32), though compulsory admission was not significantly reduced. A difference of 1.6 points in the mean score on the client satisfaction questionnaire (CSQ-8) was not quite significant (P = 0.07), although it became so after adjustment for baseline characteristics (P = 0.002).
conclusionCrisis resolution teams can reduce hospital admissions in mental health crises. They may also increase satisfaction in patients, but this was an equivocal finding.
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